I am really the victim of other people's imagination.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I also like men who like dogs. I couldn't date a man who doesn't like my dog.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.